Posted on 05/23/2021 8:49:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sen. Rand Paul said he won’t get the COVID-19 vaccine because he has already had the coronavirus and believes he now has "natural immunity."
Paul (R-Ky.), one of the first senators to test positive for the virus last March, told John Catsimatidis on his WABC 770 AM radio show that it’s a personal decision to opt-out of the vaccine.
An ophthalmologist, Paul said unless he sees evidence proving that the vaccine is more effective than having survived the virus, he won’t be getting the shot.
"Until they show me evidence that people who have already had the infection are dying in large numbers, or being hospitalized or getting very sick, I just made my own personal decision that I’m not getting vaccinated because I’ve already had the disease and I have natural immunity," Paul said in the interview that aired Sunday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has encouraged people who have had COVID to get vaccinated because "experts do not yet know how long you are protected from getting sick again after recovering."
"Even if you have already recovered from COVID-19, it is possible—although rare—that you could be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 again," the CDC said on its website.
Paul, who has tussled with Dr. Anthony Fauci at a number of Senate hearings over mask-wearing and whether the virus originated in a Chinese lab, said getting vaccinated should be a personal choice.
"In a free country you would think people would honor the idea that each individual would get to make the medical decision, that it wouldn’t be a big brother coming to tell me what I have to do," Paul said.
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I hear that a lot.
I answer that with a question: Then why aren’t influenza shots mandatory?
Thank you GWB, his Porkulus, and Electronic Medical Records.
Every independent doc I had either went to a health system or retired after that.
And now all toe the party line. What a coinkydink.
See that with our local groups too.
Gotta say this for Deep State.
They’re planners.
Note to Rand Paul: BTW, get someone under oath on the vaccine uptake figures.
Hint, hint.
Has anyone come out with an actual vaccine against the KungFlu? Or do they still only have these therapeutics?
I read that the vax actually erases the natural antibodies in someone that HAD immunity prior to vax.
From an Upstate NY media outlet that, as usual, has buried the lede...
Some are hesitant to get the COVID vaccine. Here's how doctors are convincing them.
Why were primary care providers the last to get vaccines to distribute? How many are distributing vaccines now? Who decides which providers get which vaccines? On what basis?
This was NEVER about public health, Senator...
Senator Paul is the REAL DEAL. His insight into what is happening to us is clear and he is unafraid of the Deep State. In a world of intimidated men, he stands out as unique in the muck and mire of a government trying it’s best to turn to Marxism and the enslavement of the common American. I look up to Senator Paul and I pray for him. He has already paid a price way too high for the job he took representing decent Americans.
Yes agree!
I never felt too bad just tired during the shut down,but nothing severe,just figured from not doing anything for two months.
Who knows
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